What If There Hadn't Been a War With Iraq?
William H Watson
By William H Watson
Joe Biden said that success in Iraq may be one of the great achievements of the Obama administration. Most of our soldiers will be home by summer and the Iraq government is doing well. What would the situation be today if we had not invaded Iraq? If the US had not invaded Iraq Saddam Hussein and his sons would still been in power. Throughout the 90's Saddam killed hundreds of thousands of his own people. He targeted the Kurds in the north and the Shi'ite Muslims in the south. As his sons gained more power they became ruthless with their own personal terror machines. The only debate would be concerning the number of victims. Would it have been thousands or hundreds of thousands during this past decade? It is terrible that over 4000 of our soldiers died in the war with Iraq. But every American death may have saved a thousand lives or more. Saddam had a thing going on with the United Nations. On the one hand the UN had placed sanctions against Iraq, while on the other hand, Saddam made millions off the "Oil for Food" program. The scandal allegedly involved financing for Al Qaeda. The program was suggested by the US in 1995 to allow Iraq to trade oil for food and other humanitarian supplies. These provisions were then supposed to go to the poor Iraqi citizens hurt by the sanctions. Very little happened to the culprits of this scandal. I'm sure Saddam would have generated many more sweet deals to fund his operations through the UN. UN Resolution after resolution had been given against Saddam through the 90's. Everyone believed he had weapons of mass destruction and was looking for ways to deliver them. Do you remember how he kept all the weapons inspectors confused? I'm sure there would have been more powerless resolutions and Saddam would have only grown more embolden to deceive the world. He attacked Iran in the 80's and Kuwait in the 90's. Would he have joined Al Qaeda in this decade? The big question is what Saddam would have done after 9/11. I will never forget the image of Saddam celebrating after the attacks. I don't think he was a participant in the 9/11 attacks, but he was thrilled and certainly would have supported an escalation to the war. After the invasion of Afghanistan, many of the worst terrorists escaped to Iraq for safe haven. The most famous was al-Zawqawi, the guy who beheaded so many Americans on video. There is no doubt that Iraq would have been the primary training ground and maybe the launching point for Al Qaeda attacks against America. I am grateful our military crushed Saddam, his sons, and the Ba'ath Party in Iraq. We should have taken them out after the first Iraq war. There are liberals in this country that want to send Bush and Cheney to jail because this was an illegal war in their minds. I wish they would turn their energies toward fighting dandelions or some other issue that will not drive me so crazy. Thank you military for what you accomplished in Iraq. Check out Bill's blog at http://www.questionsbybill.com.
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